Josh Dickie was solely 18 years previous when he attended a bush bash celebration off of Pack Highway in southwest London on July 30, 2021.
Dickie advised the jury in a London courthouse on Monday that when he had arrived on the gathering, he witnessed a verbal altercation between his good friend Isabella Restrepo and Emily Altmann, one of many accused in a deadly altercation that occurred that evening, “I noticed an argument actually simply title calling from one particular person, Emily, she was yelling, she was loud.”
Dickie mentioned, “It ended with Emily strolling away leaving the bush bash.”
He testified that moments later as he was heading out from the celebration with some buddies, he noticed a white car pull up, “The tires hit the curb. Two guys hopped out of the automotive and certainly one of them requested Emily, ‘The place are they?’ as certainly one of them pulled out a sword… he sounded offended.”
London, Ont. police examine a deadly capturing on Pack Highway within the metropolis’s southwest nook on July 31, 2021. (Brent Lale/CTV London)
He mentioned, “They have been sporting all black head to toe, they have been sporting balaclavas….It is not a standard factor to be coming to a celebration trying like that… I simply related it to the altercation.”
Dickie advised the jury that he tried to alert others like Restrepo about what he noticed by way of textual content, “I attempted to get her out, ‘there’s guys here with weapons’…I had a nasty feeling anyone was going to get damage.”
Moments later Josue Silva, 18, could be shot within the stomach and rushed to hospital the place he could be pronounced lifeless.
Inside days of the incident Altmann, 22, and co-accused Carlos Guerra Guerra, 23, could be charged in reference to the case. They’ve each plead not responsible to second degree homicide, and assault inflicting bodily hurt.
Restrepo wrapped up her testimony in courtroom earlier on Monday. Below cross-examination from defence lawyer Nathan Gorham, he instructed that she was not being truthful about how occasions unfolded on the evening in query, she responded by saying, “I used to be not attempting to deceive anyone… I didn’t attempt to idiot the jury.”
Nevertheless, she did admit that she tried to cyberbully a number of the folks on the celebration – which included Altman – by taking a video.
The trial together with continued testimony from Dickie resumes on Tuesday.
